It’s been a while!
It has been a while since I last did a blog post on this site mainly because things have been somewhat busy for me! My work at the Detention Forum, a network of over 50 independent organisations working together to …
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London RCO Forum
I have had contact with the London Refugee Community Organisations’ (RCO) Advocacy Forum for years, in their different guises, ever since I was working at the Refugee Council back in 2007-11. It is such an important initiative bringing together refugee …
2023 – review of my year
After a very busy year in 2022, last year, whilst still full, wasn’t quite as manic as the previous year thankfully, and I worked on a number of diverse and interesting assignments such as: Continuing to support Detention Forum, and …
Sanctuary in Politics
Last month, I had the pleasure again to do a few sessions at the latest Sanctuary in Politics course, this time held in Swansea. This is an incredibly special training course, run by City of Sanctuary UK, and it’s basically …
A good example of a European campaign
Last month I was in Brussels running and advocacy workshop for Eurochild with their European campaign on Early Childhood Development. I have had the good fortune to be involved with this European campaign, involving now 11 different countries, since it …
Putting my approach into action
I’ve written many times before outlining some very simple tools, which can drive your campaigning practice It has been interesting for me at the Detention Forum to be able to slowly put some of these tools into action for this …
What does the word safety mean?
Last month I had the privilege of re-connecting with the Voices Network at the British Red Cross. The Voices network is a collective of refugees and people seeking asylum. Together, they speak out about issues that affect them. As people …
New Homelessness Campaign
Back in 2021 I did some work for the Royal Foundation as they began to think through what William, Prince of Wales, or the Duke as they referred to him back then, could contribute to a new campaign to tackle …
New leadership course now half way through
I’ve been really delighted to be working with the impressive Shpresa programme this year on a new leadership course for migrant community leaders. We launched it in Parliament last month, and we are now half-way through the first course. The …
New migrant leadership course
Back in the summer I was approached by Shpresa programme, who gave me the exciting news that they had received funding to run a new leadership course for migrant community leaders. I was really keen to meet up and discuss …